Improvement in ironing-boards



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I Ironing-Board. No, 161.053 Patented March 23, \875.

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MYBON E. MOORE, OF AUBURN, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN lRONlNG-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 161,053, dated March23, 1875; application filed February 3, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MYRON E. MOORE, of Auburn, in the county ofAndroscoggin, State of Maine, have inventeda certain new and use fulImprovement in Ironing-Boards, of which the following is a descriptionsuificiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in theart or science to which my invention pertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of thisspecification, in which Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective view,showing the top of the board; and Fig.2, a like View, showing the bottomof the same.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the differentfigures of the drawing.

My invention relates more especially to that class of ironing-boardswhich are designed for domestic use in doing up or ironing shirtbosoms;and consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, ashereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, the object .being toproduce an effective device of this character. 1

In the drawing, A represents the table or body of the board; B, thecollar-slide; O,

the key for securing the collar-slide; D, the stretcher or frictionalslide, and g the frame to which the table is attached. One end of thebody or table A is cut out or curved, as shown at x, the slide B beingso shaped as to conform thereto,and provided with the bar F, fitted toslide in a rundlet or aperture in the cross-bar f of the frame 9 g. Thestretcher D is provided with a bar, e, fitted to slide in the cross-barf, and has its upper surface covered with sand paper or emery-cloth (notshown) at E, or next the under part of the table A. The key 0 is bent toform the V-shaped springc, and Worksina slot cut in the bar]? the studd, which projects from the under side of the body A, being designed toprevent the entire or accidental withdrawal of the key.

In the use of my improvement the board is inserted in the shirt, thebosom of the same being brought immediately down or onto the body A. Thecollar-board is then placed between the curved portion or of the bodyand the slide B, and secured by the key 0, the spring 0 yielding tocompensate for any inequalities in the band. After the upper portion ofthe bosom is thus secured it is spread or smoothed evenly on the tableA, and fastened at the bottom by being inserted between the slide D andthe table A, after which the slide is pushed in, the sandpaper acting byfriction to exert the requisite tension on the cloth and stretch andhold the bosom properly in place on the table, in a manner which will bereadily obvious to all conversant with such matters without a moreexplicit description.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is- The improvedironing'board described, the

same consisting of the body A, provided with the curved collar-slide B,spring-key O, and frictional stretcher D, constructed and arranged tooperate substantially as and for the purpose specified.

MYRON EASTMAN MOORE. L.S.] Witnesses:

J. H. OTIS, W. P. MILLER.

